Pulitzer Prize winning food writer. One of the most widely admired voices of Los Angeles, Gold wrote about restaurants for four decades and became indelibly linked with the city in which he was born and raised. The eldest of three boys, all born in Los Angeles in the 1960s, Gold spent his childhood attending Dodger games and eating at Junior’s and Canter’s delis. His father was a probation officer, his mother a longtime high school librarian at L.A.’s Dorsey High School. The Reform Jewish family uprooted several times but always stayed local, moving from a neighborhood near Inglewood to West L.A. and then to Beverly Hills, where Gold graduated from high school.At UCLA, he studied art and music. After college, he had a number of jobs — information operator, music booker, proofreader at a downtown law journal — and then began working for L.A. Weekly, where he wrote about music, art, theater, movies and food while freelancing for publications that included Spin, Rolling Stone and The Times. Gold met Ochoa in 1984 while the two were working at L.A. Weekly — he as a proofreader, and she as an intern. He wooed her with flowers and his mother’s peach pie — Judith Gold was a famously good cook — and the two were married in 1990 at the now-shuttered Campanile on La Brea Avenue. They have two children, 23-year-old Isabel and 15-year-old Leon. Gold was a devoted father, cooking the kids dinner before heading out for the night to review a restaurant, taking them to Comic-Con and bringing friends to Leon’s flag football games. Gold died of pancreatic cancer at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles this evening, according to his wife, Times arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa. He was diagnosed with the disease in early July. He was predeceased by his parents, Irwin and Judith. Survived by his wife, children, brothers Mark and Joshua. Portions of obit came from Los Angeles Times, Andrea Chang.